The Kuwaiti authorities are reportedly investigating a video that appears to show a woman filming her Ethiopian maid falling from a seventh-floor window without attempting to help her.
The maid can be heard screaming “hold me, hold me” just before her hand slips and she falls onto a roof below.

She was subsequently rescued by paramedics and treated in hospital for a broken arm and other injuries.

The Kuwait Society for Human Rights said the employer had a duty of rescue.

The organisation noted that emirate’s penal code decreed that anyone who deliberately refrained from coming to the aid of a person in peril was liable to be sentenced to up to three months in prison.

The Kuwait Times meanwhile cited a lawyer, Fawzia al-Sabah, as saying she would file a complaint against the employer with the public prosecutor.

The newspaper said it was believed the maid initially climbed out of the window because she was suicidal.

In the 12-second video posted online, she is seen hanging outside a block of flats in the Sabah al-Salem district of Kuwait City, with one hand gripping the window.